Seen and Heard

Seen Off Broadway: If good intentions made for great musical theater, than the hip-hop and Latino-inflected In the Heights would be the best show since Oklahoma! But, they don’t. Not every musical need be edgy and with-it, but In the Heights has a spongy-sweet marshmallow center that is difficult to swallow for two hours. My sympathies to set designer Anna Louizos, who, for the second time this season, has found herself at odds with her material. Her complexly engineered work on the flop ...